The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-08-07
Notes

Our GUNTER has written a new play
called One Against Many.
TULLIDGE's BENEFIT, Ben Israel, has
been postponed until next month.
OsBoURNE AND Stockwell will come to
Salt Lake with Shadows of q Great City
this fall.
IT IS authoritatively stated that Og-
den will have an Opera House If she
gets her depot.
WILSON BARRETT's residence near
London was the former home of George
Eliot, and he reveis in its silent tales.
MISS SARAH JEwErr is rapidly regain
ing her health, and will probably reap.
pear on the stage early in the season.
LOUISE DILLON was the wife of John
Dillon, the comedian who once played
Pittacus Green here. The two have
been divorced for some time.
EMMA ABBOTT is over in Paris and
London, securing new operas and new
dresses. She criticizes the jubilee pro-
cession for the absence of music.
LIZ MoYNE, Kelley, Sothern and
Whiffen are il the cast of the Great
Pink Pearl, which opens the Lyceum
Theatre, New York, next month.
THERE IS a general desire among
musicians that Prof. Careless should
organize a chorus of from fifty to sixty
male voices, to be limited to members
who are readers OF music.
IT Is said that Maestro Verdi is at
work on new opera, and that it is not
yet decided whether it will be in two or
three acts. The subject is comic, and
the iibretto will be by Signor Botto.
PALMER's COMPANY produces the broad
comedy Welcome Little Stranger in
Chicago last week. 1t is by Jones, author
of the Silver King and Sal is and Sin
ners. 1t made great go, and is com
pared with Confusion.
Mr.. B. B. YOU'VE and his wife.
| Madame Mazzucato Young, will leave
for Omaha about September 18th, and
in that thriving city they expect to
make their home. Mr.. Young saws the
musiCal field there is a wide one, and
from what be has seen he expects to do
very well. He is already director of a
swell male voice glee club. Mr..
Young has some thoughts of giving
farewell concert here next month, and
it is possible that The Omaha tenor, Mr..
Brigham, who will spend a week with
Mr.. Young this summer, may appear
before Salt Lake audience on that oc-
casion.
HAGGARD's NOVEL of Allen Quarter
main has been dramatized by Henry
Lee, and will have a New York pro-
duction. The author will be inter
ested financially. 1t is not generally
known that Haggard is but a Young
man, having reached but his 31st wear
on June %. His information regarding
South African scenes and native
character is from experience. When
only 10 Mr.. Haggard accompanied Sir
Henry Bulwer to Natal; and during the
two succeeding years he served on the
staff of Sir Theophilus Stepstone, the
Special Commissioner to the Transvaal.
He withdrew from the Colonial service
In 1879, and returning to London and
Major Margitson, of buckingham
House, Norfolk, became a practising
barrister of Lincoln's Inn.
Mr.. Sol SMITH RUSSELL will Withdraw
from the stage after next season, as he
Intends to go into business in Mime
apoiis, where his father-in law, Mr..
William 7. Adams ("Oliver Optic'0 will
live with him. He has been before the
public twenty five years. He began his
career at Jacksonville, H., at Ii years
of age, and gave his first monologue
entertainment in 1856. In 1859 he
joined the Berger family, well known
as concert company. At different
times he was with this company until
1880, when he set out as a star, taking
the leading part in Edgewood Folks,
written by j. E Brown. In this he
played for five years with great sue
cess. In 1885 he was a member OF the
Boston Museum company for twenty
weeks, playing with success several OF
Mr.. Warren's parts. In the next
season Mr.. Russell appeared in 300 per
formances of Felix McCusick. His
latest efforts have been in the spasmodic
comedy of Pa, in which he appeared in
this city.